James Low 24-27 April 2008 Retreat at the Kamalashila Institute in the Eifel. Download the transcript Topics: Buddhist ‘tools’: what are they for and how do we use them? Emptiness Dzogchen: things are as they are Choosing a practice that suits you Bardo teachings from the Shitro Terma of Karma Lingpa The Root Verses of the Bardo A Prayer for […]
» Read moreExtracted from teachings on the first evening and the first day. Eifel Spring Retreat on the Six Bardos, 24-27 April 2008 James Low Transcribed by Jo Féat and edited by Barbara Terris Download the PDF Excerpts: …Just observe and try to see the point where you get caught. The quicker you can see that you are caught, the quicker you […]
» Read moreThis short teaching was given by James Low towards the end of the retreat at Kamalashila Institute in the Eifel during April 2008. At that time there were uprisings and suppressions reported in Tibet. It was transcribed by Jo Féat and edited by Barbara Terris. Download the prayer
» Read moreNew Transcript. Basic Buddhism with a Dzogchen View focusses on the practice of Ngöndo. The transcription by Kath Brady was worked on by Mário César Lins Filho. Uploaded 20 June 2023
» Read moreA terma treasure text of Nuden Dorje. Teaching and commentary on his translation by James Low. Todtmoos, June 2007.Transcribed by Sarah Allen and edited by Barbara Terris. This terma text with commentary is included in Chapter 8 of Simply Being. The Todtmoos transcript has also been incorporated into a book prepared by Robert Jaroslawski and called Zuhause im Spiel der […]
» Read moreBecause our life is nothing but moments, events, arising and passing, arising and passing. All that we’ve ever done is gone. Our childhood is gone. We can remember it, we can tell stories about it, but it’s gone. Even our breakfast is gone. Everything is gone. If we really see that, then when we tell people about ourselves, about our past, we’re just inviting them to fall asleep with us. We’re saying, ‘I had a lovely dream, let me share it with you. You can fall asleep in my dream for a while and then, because I believe in reciprocity, I’ll fall asleep in yours.’
» Read moreWhen things are calm it is easy to disturb them. When things are clear it is easy to dirty them, to make them lose their clarity. On an ordinary level calmness and clarity are very vulnerable states. This is because of the very nature of our existence. From a traditional buddhist point of view the functioning basis of our existence, of how we operate as human beings, is to be caught up in an experience of duality: looking inside we experience ‘ourselves’, and looking outside we experience ‘things’ which are other. But of course, it is not quite as simple as that.
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